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“People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.”

People Knows Want Giving Wells Chance Theory Development Asking Unification Give Us A Chance

Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.”

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.”

World Courses Challenges Chance Path Development Offers Resources Climate Climate Change Destroying Sustainability Sustainable Development Looming Limited Resources

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.”

People Way Needs Feels Sometimes Lasts Chance Learning Style Development Comfortable Familiar Learners

Book:Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Men Children Long Has Beens Given Chance Education Teaching Middle Ignorance Development Habit Adults Contrary Ignorant Conventions Continuing Arrested Middle Aged Cocoons

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.”

Giving Persons Chance Cases Development Trauma Cells Neurons

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.”

“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”

Inspirational Children Chance Education Study Psychology Development Mathematical Logical Epistemology Child Development

Book:Dialogue with Jean Piaget

Source: Dialogue with Jean Piaget

“Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'”

Long Shows Form Opportunity Chance Creative Development Filmmaker Emergence Hbo Sopranos Creative Freedom

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”

“When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'”

Ifs Jobs Lying Chance Company Economic Development Claims Oil Shells Attempting Economic Development Oil Companies

Author:Vince Cable

“The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs”

Ifs Made Seems Language Heaven Chance Worst Development Becoming Glory Meetings Sorry Sake Bunch Educated Loser Deaf English Language Verbs Dense Irritated Nouns Language Development

Author:Stephen Fry